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DEREK
BLASBERG
Writer, Editor, Best-Selling Author
“…the Truman Capote of his generation, or the Carrie Bradshaw.”
- New York Times
D erek Blasberg is a writer, languages and published in Asia, South In 2012, a sequel,
editor and New York Times America and Europe. In 2015, he published Very Classy: Even
best-selling author. He is Harper’s Bazaar: Models, a photographic More Exceptional
Vanity Fair’s Our Man on the survey of the most influential faces that have
Street columnist, a senior staff member at the appeared in the publication. As a fashion Advice for the
Gagosian Gallery, and the host of CNN Style. editor, Blasberg has collaborated with some Extremely Modern
of the industry’s most iconic image-makers, Lady was released.
Derek began his career in fashion as an including Karl Lagerfeld, David Bailey and
assistant at Vogue. He has contributed to the Terry Richardson. “Derek is clever, funny, self-effacing,
international editions of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Derek’s CNN Style looks at creative adorable, witty, nasty, and very, very
and Harper’s Bazaar, as well as W, Glamour, expression from a multicultural and multi- endearing. Not only that, he is a
WSJ Magazine, the New York Times, and the faceted vantage. He also hosts several web great writer.”
London Sunday Times. series for Vanity Fair, including Conversations
in the Backseat, which has featured Naomi - Tom Ford
Blasberg’s first book, a collection of humorous Campbell, Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson,
essays about modern etiquette called Classy: and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Blasberg lives in New York City with his dog,
Lady, was released by Penguin in 2010. The a dachshund named Monster.
book was on the New York Times best sellers
list; it has since been translated into several
Photo: Chris Sorensen for Observer
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